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Sam Peckinpah's The wild bunch

By Stephen Prince

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780521584333, 9780521586061, 9781139086004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
62 MB (65057652 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Film Handbooks
Pages
240\240
Library
Fulcrum
Time added
2023-06-15 07:19:02

Description

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch is one of the most influential films in American cinema. The intensity of its violence was unprecedented, while the director's use of multiple cameras, montage editing, and slow motion quickly became the normative style for rendering screen violence. This volume includes freshly-commissioned essays by several leading scholars of Peckinpah's work. Examining the film's production history from script to screen, its rich and ambivalent vision of American society, and its relationship to the Western genre, among other topics, it provides a definitive reinterpretation of an enduring film classic.

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